[illumos-Developer] How can I help out?

[Greg Eanes]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson at esri.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 01:41:02PM -0700, Andrew M. Hettinger wrote:
>> Gary Mills wrote on 08/25/2010 10:38:07 AM:
>> >
>> > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:36:22AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> > > So my advice for people wanting to help out but without a specific area
>> > > of interest is this.  Comb through the bug reports for OpenSolaris.
>> > > bugs.opensolaris.org  -- look for oss-bite-size for simple bugs to use
>> > > as a starting point.
>> >
>> > I see that the search at bugs.opensolaris.org always returns nothing
>> > now, even if you search by a valid BugID.  The oss-bite-size list is
>> > still available, but it hasn't been updated since 2009.  I've reviewed
>> > that before.  Many of the bugs are minor defects, ones that might
>> > annoy system admins, but wouldn't be visible to users.  I've fixed
>> > enough of those to learn the procedure.  Some have only vague
>> > descriptions.  Others are bite-sized suggestions with enormous
>> > ramifications.  I don't see much significant here.
>> >
>> > --
>> > -Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-
>> >
>>
>> Well this definitely clears up what we do when we overlap with
>> Oracle's bugs. (nothing because we can't look at them anyway)
>
> You can still pass a direct URL to the BugID in question and see
> information:
>
>  http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6852825
>
> for example.  I suppose this may disappear as well..
>
> Ray

This is apparently a temporary issue. See the following OpenSolaris.org
website-discuss thread for more info.

http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=133323&tstart=0

Greg